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FINGER RING.

No. 253,233. Patented Feb. 7,1882,

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JAMES H. SPRAGUE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO EDI VARD A. &WILLIAM H. LUTHER, OF SAME PLACE.

FINGER-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,233, dated February7,1882.

Application filed November 9, 1881. (No model.)

To all whomit may concern Be it known that I, JAMEs H. SPRAGUE, ofProvidence, in the State of Rhode Island, have made certain new anduseful Improvements in Finger-Rings; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing specification, taken in connection with the drawings making apart of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure l is a view of the band. Fig. 2 is a view of the ornamentation.Fig.3 is a view of the setting. Fig. 4 shows the ring complete, withstone.

My invention relates to that class of rings in which an ornamental stoneis secured iii a suitable setting; and it consists in constructing andputting togetherthe several parts with out the aid of solder, ashereinafter described.

A, Fig. l, is the band which surrounds thefinger, and is made from asuitable strip of metal, the ends of which are not united, but terminatein perpendicular lips B B.

0, Fig. 2, is an ornamental piece struck up from sheet metal, and havinga transverse slot, D.

E, Fig. 3, is the setting, which is also struck up from sheet metal,with a slot, F, and prongs G G G G.

The several parts of my invention having been formed as described, andshown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, I first take the band A and pass the lips BB through the slot D of the ornamental piece O, and then through theslot F of the setting E. I then bend over the protruding ends of thelips B B in opposite directions, which secures the three parts firmlytogether,

ble of being extended or contracted to fit fingels of different sizes,and also of Patent No. 241,453, of May 10, 1881, to D. Untermeyer, inwhich the band is detachable for the purpose of substituting a longer ora smaller one, as required, as well as changing the stone and setting tosuit the convenience or taste of the wearer. In my invention the band isneither capable of being extended, contracted, nor detached; and I makeno claim to the particular inventions set forth in said patents.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The band A, with its lips B B, in combination with the slottedornamental piece 0 and the slotting setting E, the whole firmly unitedwithout the aid of solder by passing said lips through the slots in theornamental piece and setting and turning down the protruding endsthereof, as described.

JAMES H. SPRAGUE.

Witnesses:

VVALTER B. VINCENT, JOHN J. OoLToN.

